Compositions
Selected Works
nushagarwal@gmail.com
nushagarwal@gmail.com
for Ukulele and Live Electronics
c.a. 10'00"
Ukulele and live electronics: Nush Agarwal
Premiered at Fidget Space
for Voice, Bass Guitar, Electronic Drums, Synthesizer, Ukulele, and Live Electronics
c.a. 4'00"
Written in collaboration with Boyer Electroacoustic Ensemble Project members Merritt Leidy, Merritt Hyman, Aaron Harsh, Colin Smith, and Faith Monaco
Voice: Merritt Hyman
Drums: Merritt Leidy
Bass Guitar and Electronics: Aaron Harsh
Synthesizer: Colin Smith
Ukulele and Electronics: Nush Agarwal
Live electronics: Faith Monaco
Premiered at the Mosaic Concert at Temple University, 10/2024
Subsequent performance at the Cybersounds Concert at Temple University, 11/2024
for Marimba, Guitar, and Ukulele
c.a. 4'00"
Marimba: Colleen Berstein
Guitar: Dan Lippel
Ukulele: Nush Agarwal
Premiered at the Walden School
for SATB voices and accompaniment
c.a. 9'00"
Libretto and Music written by Nush.
Passages:
1. Drowning
2. it'sfineit'sokayimfine
3. Your Existence is a Bad Thing
4. I Am Far Past Saving
Lyrics:
1.
Pointless days
fitted in a strange kind of pain
Contorsions, contusions, contraptions
Ice cubes pepper up a body
frosting it over
It is mine?
I have jagged teeth coming out of my cheeks
Everything is in the wrong place
It's all deformed
The mirror is warped
My ears are warped
Vocal chords lie ripped out on the dirty ground in a pool of blood
and they have been stomped out
2.
A congregation of hatred
is what ive been reduced to
The trees and the breeze hold no sway over me
anymore
The snow on the ground and the disease on my clothes
both pound at me to stay indoors
3.
Bones are breaking and cracking and shaking
begging to portrude the weak skin they reside in
Ugly stupid flesh with disgusting fucking needs
I'm too young to understand it all
I don't hold wisdom and I never will
because thats what I hear, though the words may differ
4.
I am jiving
My bones are breaking
My stomachs shaking
My heart is quaking
Dear god i am aching,
Please god im not faking,
god save me
bhagavanji save me
oh wont you save me?
no one ever saves me
wont you save me?
oh wont you save me?
for Percussion and 'Ukulele
c.a. 8'00"
Percussion: Sean MacCarthy-Grant
'Ukulele: Nush Agarwal
Premiered at the Atlantic Music Festival
for Orchestra
c.a. 6'00"
Read by the Rensselaer Orchestra
for fixed electronics
Commissioned track for the video game "Rivals of Aether" Steam Workshop project "Greenpunk Yard" found here. The track is designed for loops that continue based on players gameplay and does not have a fixed time.
for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello
c.a. 5'00"
Piano: Maria Parinni
Violin: Dan Qiao
Violoncello: Jameson Platte
Premiered at the Atlantic Music Festival
for Solo Piano
c.a. 2'00"
This piece was originally written to score an animated comic titled "No Repairs Necessary" written & illustrated by Adrian Ricker, with the animation using a MIDI rendition. It was later premiered as a solo piano work at the Atlantic Music Festival in 2023, performed by Weiran Chen.
for Oboe, Bass Trombone, Piano, and Live Electronics
c.a. 8'00"
Oboe: Grace Shyrok
Bass Trombone: Weston Olencki
Piano: Chrysi Nanou
Live Electronics: Nush Agarwal
for Two Pianos
c.a. 2'00"
Scored for an animated comic written & illustrated by Hayden
Video editing by Nush Agarwal